Joel McHale Explains What It’s Like to Be a Dyslexic TV Show Host

“There [are] all these live shows I’m doing with The Soup now, and I’m reading [a] teleprompter the whole time, and people wanted to promote [the show] by saying, ‘Anything could go wrong!’ That’s what the E! executives wanted, and I was like, ‘No, no, no! Just tell them I’m dyslexic. That should raise the stakes enough.’ … It might not look like I’m concentrating and I’m just screwing around, but I really do have to concentrate while I’m reading. And half of the time I’m getting it wrong, but you can’t tell because I’m just making up different words for it. It’s smoke and mirrors.”

- Joel McHale talks about hosting The Soup despite his struggles with dyslexia in a new interview with NPR.